Indeed, there is very little or no competition in smaller areas, whether in Canada or the US_of_A.

However, due to deregulation, individuals in numerous areas, especially the larger cities, towns and other locations, individuals have the option to choose companies.

For example, in my area, a person needs to give one month's notice to his/her company and then switch to another company for the supply of electricity. Numerous years ago, companies were restricted to providing power ONLY to the local confined communities. For a long time now, a company not only provides electricity to the said local areas, but also to all areas of Canada, US_of_A, etc.. The current President and CEO of the Canadian company is a US_of_A citizen who occupied the position about three months ago.

Your shoe size exceeds your IQ. No wonder your mother treats you like a step son.

It has been looked at a long time ago, with the pros and cons.

Private entities have the options to proceed with the next phases.

I advocated wind farms for Guyana a decade ago. I don't buy the argument that Guyana doesn't have sufficient wind flow to sustain power-generating windmills. There are wind farms in inland parts of Canada, far from the Atlantic or Pacific oceans.

Guyana's 200-mile ocean front has many points where wind blows continually, 24/7. With appropriate energy-storage facilities connected to the windmills, electricity could be distributed to thousands of consumers.

Correct Wally .. basically the same approach here.

DG, I like this approach providing the energy companies are in true competition with each other and not meeting in secret to fix the price.  I saw a documentary on EN-RON once when they would just turn off their power generation plants and call it brown out when the cost of electricity was too low or let a fire continue to burn in one of their plants so that they can take it out of the system so that the price of electricity would rise.

It would be good if we have this system in Guyana some day.  With GEC just doing the poles,meters and billing.  Other companies generating and selling electricity in competition.

Book, those scandanavian countries are big into windmills.  They have thousands of wind mills in farms in the Ocean which generate a huge amount of electricity. It would be good if they can help Guyana set up and maintain several wind farms on the Atlantic coast.

I live mostly in Bullhead Arizona during the year so I have seen the Nevada, Arizona and Utah desert areas.  For the life of me I cannot see why those desert areas in these states where the sun shines most of the year is not covered with solar panels.  There is nothing there except miles and miles of desert which have desert shrub, some small animals and  very hot sunshine beating down on the desert.  It makes me think of the power of the oil lobby.

Good Idea wally......But the Black PNC House of Isreal Thugs....and Jagdeo and Ramotar Crab Louse will not agree with you....

according to them everything he do is perfect....

If eee give a man with a pooja store US$15 million....

and get a cut back....and that's perfectly ok.

Which developing nation has deployed wind farms or solar in earnest. These sources are heavily subsidized by the Govt. As I said, you find them in wealthy developed nations.  China is deploying Solar but it's only because China is now the largest panel producer and demand is falling overseas.  Still it's a miniscule part of they power supply and highly subsidized.  India looked at all those options and sent for Hydro and Nuclear.

STARR Solar Energy

Who proposing/promoting that?  Why Guyana, why not take it to Brazil, India, Singapore, Thailand, many African nations, etc...nations with similar sunlight and trying to reduce fossil usage!

Solar has not yet come of age, it's still a niche for the rich and highly subsidize.

The Hydro is good as long as the government gets it for a good price.  When I mean good price I mean everything for under 100 million US dollars. That way, the country got the Norway money as a backup to fully pay for it if they have trouble paying the loan in the future.

Go present the case for $100 mil.

You have to play hard ball with these foreigners.  Tell them build it for under $100 million take it or leave it. Not a penny more. Who is going to turn down that type of money coming in to their company balance sheet. The government has got to be careful that the company does not hold the project hostage for more money.

Good Luck!!

Business dont work that way. You have to accept bids and have the PNC analyse the financials. Hydro is a long term low maintenance investment. The people in Guyana 100 years from now will be praising us if we had built it.

i remember the same argument about the stadium. I see the same argument about a bigger airport.  If you want development you have to spend money.

sell that false choice shyte to sheep who doan know better

AFHEP can be built for much, much less (and without the onerous, existing BOOT arrangements, btw) . . . any intelligent, non-criminal minded person knows this

Despite the setbacks, the hydropower project will be built.

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwn Captain Obvious . . . tell us something we don't know for a change

Redux is part of the wrecking crew that is opposed to every project in Guyana.  Why do these people hate progress??  Mind-boggling!   

typical ignar rant . . . show HOW u low-IQ fool

redux, Redux, REDUX, Xuder .. all the same.